The Epic of Gilgamesh, known as the oldest story in history, is thought to have been written in the early 2nd millennium BC, with the original being even older, in the 4th millennium BC.

Narrator: Hello, future people of the UK. Would you like to visit me at the dawn of civilisation in ancient Sumer? Well, to do that, you’ve got to travel back in time. Back before the Vikings ...

Flooding meant that crops weren't growing as well. Cities began to struggle. In the end, Sumer was invaded by the Elamites who came from modern-day Iran. Narrator: Hello, future people of the UK.

A Sumerian palace discovered in Iraq dates back 4,500 years and helps to understand one of the first civilizations in human ...

Naturally, it was these civilizations that invented the first writing systems known to history. The Sumerian and Egyptian Civilizations are considered to be the first civilizations, and both ...

For information on the 2019 Benson Center for the Study of Western Civilization Summer Institute please see: 2019 Summer Institute Essays Summer Institute Extends Benson Center's Mission ...